African American Quotations

119. In hating Africa and in hating the Africans, we ended up hating ourselves
without even realizing it.

Malcolm X, 1925-1965 Nationalist leader

AFRICAN AMERICAN
STUDIES

120. Afro-American studies is an academic department. It is not a place for
ethnic cheerleading; it is not a place for a 12-step recovery program to restore
your sense of identity. It is a place where one studies an academic discipline in
a fashion as rigorous as the study of mathematics or physics, English or history.

Henry Louis Gates Jr., 1950- Scholar and Critic

121. Our generation will be remembered for our success or failure to produce
the foundational tools for Afro-American Studies.

Henry Louis Gates Jr., 1950- Scholar and Critic

122. Too many black studies programs have become segregated, ghettoized
amen corners of quasi-religious feeling, propagating old religious fantasies and
even inventing new ones.

Henry Louis Gates Jr., 1950- Scholar and Critic

123. No black history becomes significant and meaningful unless it is taught
in the context of world and national history. In its sealed-off black-studies
centers, it will be simply another exercise in racial breast-feeding.

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